I thought that, as my journey with Accenture lasted 14 years, it deserves last dot. Last summary. Some last words. But I am not saying Bye! I am saying Thank you! So here it is…

Where it all started

When I was around 12, all schoolmates around where using computers for two things – playing games or coding in C / C++.

My mothers’s cousing (God bless you uncle Michal in heaven for this) brought couple of 3.14″ diskettes with Internet Explorer (IE) 3.0 and I have installed it on our freshly received PC with Windows 95 (yes IE was not out of the box part of Windows at that time 😏). He thought me a lot about internet but the problem was that dail-up was expensive at that time in Slovakia so I had to visit our nearby neightbour, save sites to the diskette and open it later at home… I spent tons of hours trying to learn structure of HTML, CSS, Javascript so I could make my own pages…

This was at the end of basic school. On secondary school, I have started to learn Delphi and PHP. Then naturally I started to use MySQL to store data and make sites generated more dynamically not to have static HTML…

During University studies I have deepened my knowledge in these and when I started to work during university in Unicorn (Big Czech Software House), I have learn ASP 3.0 (ASP Classic) with VBScript and Oracle DB. I have also started to use Microsoft tech stack as I have moved to use MS SQL Server 2000 with ASP 3.0… This was really cool…

After university, I have spent 2+ year working for small Slovak company called Gamanet helping building C4 security access system and their customer portal using ASP.NET, MS SQL Server and MS CRM 4.0…

I was not using English that much in both of the companies so when I decided to change company, I thought to myself that this time it will be global / wordwide company…

Hello Accenture / Avanade!

When I was seeking a new job, I have found out there are plenty of openings for ASP.NET developers in Accenture in Bratislava, Slovakia. During the interview process, we have also talked that basically there is no legal entity for Avanade in Slovakia so although I will work for Accenture, I will have both accounts and working for both companies as Avanade is specilizing in Microsoft tech stack… Sounding like perfect combination for me working through Accenture in “Avanade” using Microsoft stack…

I have started my career at Accenture – Avanade on some custom ASP.NET dev projects but soon I went to one that was SharePoint thingy related. Once it ended and we were looking for a new project for me 12 years ago, Sitecore popped up out of sudden as some kind of nice platform to get up to speed our initial setup and also development. With my experience it sounded like really nice platform to start with any project and not spending weeks or months creating data models, UML diagrams, ORM mappers and all of these “basics” to realize in months we don’t need it at all (or at least part of it)…. It really speeded up our development significantly… We have started with Sitecore 7.0 and ASP.NET WebForms but soon moved to Sitecore 7.2 and ASP.NET MVC. I don’t know how but after some Sitecore EXM, Sitecore Commerce and Sitecore SXA implementations, I/we have ended up doing pure Sitecore JSS based projects. We have loved it. Both backenders and especially frontenders. Recently we have also switched to using Docker, containers and Kubernetes in AKS, dreams came true…

With some of colleagues we were on and off on projects therefore when we were meeting each other again on another project, it was always plessure and we could skip those forming, storming and norming phases and we’re just performing from day 1 or Sprint 0 😏. This is great thing about Accenture that although I had one contract with Accenture the whole time, I was able to work with more than 15 different customers / clients in those 14+ years. With some on projects for 2+ years, with some just couple of months, weeks or even days… Same also with some colleagues…

During those 14 years I could visit Argentina, couple of times US, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, UK, Germany, Austria, and many, many, really many times Budapest, Hungary… I have attended Software Architecture conference in London organized by O’Reilly and also couple of SUGCONs in Antverps and in London and Sitecore Symposiums in Barcelona, in Las Vegas and also in Orlando… I need to also mention that I have presented on many SUG meetups either in person or online during this time…

Farewell Accenture / Avanade!

During these increadible 14 years and 2 months:

  • some of the colleagues became close friends
  • war rooms became almost DnD plays
  • I have become respected and contributing Sitecore Community member with so far 7 Sitecore MVP titles
  • business trips became adventures and also leasure times not only stress around meetings to “make good impression”
  • I have learnt to be humble and keep my integrity at all costs – I was always open to all parties
  • I did my best to follow Accentures’ “Can do” attitude

But everything has its end and when sudden opportunity came, after some struggle (14 years is 14 years, right? 🤌), I have decide to leave and start a new journey, ehm, continue journey elsewhere. I think that I have accomplished everything I could within my last role in Accenture and I could not go further. Of course during these 14 years, lots of companies, head hunters, HR representatives, friends and others tried to get me to other companies but I have always rejected these offers due to several different reasons. In this case in November 2025, it just felt like the “constelation of stars” is perfect for me to move. And who knows, I jabe rejected them because might be that this kind of offer / opportunity was waiting for me the whole time. Stay tuned for more details… 🤞🤘🖖

For now Thank you my friends! Thank you colleagues! Thank you Accenture!, Thank you Avanade!, Thank you all our clients that I could help you during this journey! See you around! 🙏🫂